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I saw this survival show one time. Nine people were thrown into the middle of the Venezuelan rainforest and were told that they had to some how reach civilization. It took them three weeks and five of the nine people dropped out of contention. Three able-bodied men and one small woman remained. At first glance, the woman wasn’t really anything special and didn’t exactly contribute like the other men did. She didn’t catch any food, she wasn’t especially good with a map and she was too weak to help carry anything. But after really taking a look at the dynamics of the last four remaining people, I am convinced that without her, they would not have survived. While everybody was breaking down mentally and emotionally, she kept spirits high. She resolved disputes between the other people and attempted to keep a positive atmosphere. She had mental fortitude and without that fortitude, none of them would have made it to civilization.  I’m not sure how somebody could gain that sort of mental fortitude, but I want to. I want to have her determination and strength. Lately, I’ve been thinking that my will to live isn’t exactly that strong. If I were somewhat close to death, I’d shut my eyes and think “Eh, fuck it. I’ve lived a good life,” and just let go. I’m not a fighter, but I want to be. I want to have the mental fortitude that she had. I’ve always been weak in that regard but I’m going to work on that in the future. 

I saw this survival show one time. Nine people were thrown into the middle of the Venezuelan rainforest and were told that they had to some how reach civilization. It took them three weeks and five of the nine people dropped out of contention. Three able-bodied men and one small woman remained. At first glance, the woman wasn’t really anything special and didn’t exactly contribute like the other men did. She didn’t catch any food, she wasn’t especially good with a map and she was too weak to help carry anything. But after really taking a look at the dynamics of the last four remaining people, I am convinced that without her, they would not have survived. While everybody was breaking down mentally and emotionally, she kept spirits high. She resolved disputes between the other people and attempted to keep a positive atmosphere. She had mental fortitude and without that fortitude, none of them would have made it to civilization. 

I’m not sure how somebody could gain that sort of mental fortitude, but I want to. I want to have her determination and strength. Lately, I’ve been thinking that my will to live isn’t exactly that strong. If I were somewhat close to death, I’d shut my eyes and think “Eh, fuck it. I’ve lived a good life,” and just let go. I’m not a fighter, but I want to be. I want to have the mental fortitude that she had. I’ve always been weak in that regard but I’m going to work on that in the future. 

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25 / 05
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45-40unparallel: I may actually fall for this.

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I may actually fall for this.

24 / 05
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you're the northern wind: Cross off what you've read (Average read is six)

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible - Council of Nicea
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce 
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (attempted)
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



Man, there are still a lot of books I’ve gotta read. 

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24 / 05
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22 / 05
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Remember when we went camping? Remember when we painted the nursery? Remember when we remembered going camping while we were in the nursery?

Yes kept waiting to see someone do this.

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22 / 05
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21 / 05
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19 / 05
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All the ways you wish you could be… That’s me. I look how you wanna look, I fuck like you ­ wanna fuck. I am ­ smart, capable ­ and, most­ ­ importantly, ­ I’m free in all the ways you’re not. People do it every ­ day. They ­ talk to ­ themselves, ­ they ­ see themselves as they’d like ­ to ­ be. ­ They don’t ­ have the ­ courage you have to just run ­ with ­ it. ­ Naturally you’re still ­ wrestling ­ with ­ it, ­ so ­ sometimes, ­ you’re ­ still ­ you. ­ Other times, ­ you still imagine ­ you’re ­ watching ­ me. ­ Little by little, ­ you’re just letting yourself become… Tyler Durden.

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19 / 05
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